Chapter 14

I ran for eleven miles. Rhys shifted and came with me and didn't say one word the entire way, and when we finally stopped on a ridge above the highway, my brother sat down in the snow beside me and put his head against my shoulder and cried like a kid. We drove home to Montana that night. I heard the rest of it the way you hear about weather in another state. The Council stripped Kieran of rank, bloodline claim, and territory, exactly as he said they would. Silvercrest was dissolved and its...